you can see at the massive Kumbh Mela Festival in Allahabad are rocks that float.

Among the unusual things

you can see at the massive Kumbh Mela Festival in Allahabad are rocks that float.

Photo: Sanjay Kanojia, AFP/Getty Images

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Go for a walk? Leopards don't go for walks!

We prowl, sleep in the sun, stalk prey, take a nap, climb trees, sleep in trees, but go for walks? No. Give me a minute to chew through this stupid leash. (Haui-San and Niki-San, the Clouded Leopard cubs at the San Diego Zoo.)

Elder Cal Murrell, also known as "The Happy Preacher," reacts with exuberance during a service celebrating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. inside the State Capitol in Atlanta.

Hallelujah!

Elder Cal Murrell, also known as "The Happy Preacher," reacts with exuberance during a service celebrating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. inside the State Capitol in Atlanta.

Photo: David Goldman, Associated Press

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By popular demand:

When the Harlem Globetrotters ask for a volunteer for a basketball stunt at Caze Elementary School in Evansville, Ind., pupils eagerly volunteer fourth-grade teacher Sara Cline. The Globetrotters were at the school to talk about bullying and how to prevent it.

Those Dakar 2013 riders are still at it, cruising over the dunes between Fiambala, Argentina, and Copiapo, Chile. The great endurance race ends Sunday.

Stretch run in the sand:

Those Dakar 2013 riders are still at it, cruising over the dunes between Fiambala, Argentina, and Copiapo, Chile. The great endurance race ends Sunday.

Photo: Franck Fife, AFP/Getty Images

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Gentlemen chat

in the rain at Singapore's Gardens By The Bay oblivious to the giant white baby floating in their direction. Marc Quinn's bronze and steel sculpture, titled "Planet," is meant to give the illusion of being weightless and suspended in mid-air.

a missile near the Abu Baker brigade in the Aleppo suburb of Albab. Universities were closed across Syria to mark a day of mourning called after twin blasts tore through an Aleppo campus while students were taking exams, killing at least 87 people.